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Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
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26 |
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AUTHOR:
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Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–94) |
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QUOTATION:
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To hold the same views at forty as we held at twenty is to have been stupefied for a score of years, and take rank, not as a prophet, but as an unteachable brat, well birched and none the wiser. |
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ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON, “Crabbed Age and Youth,” Virginibus Puerisque and Later Essays, p. 67 (1969). Written between 1874–1879. |
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